Manchester Arena suicide bomb - 22 dead, 116 injured

Moggy wrote:

Gandalf wrote:http://news.sky.com/story/ariana-grande-cancels-tour-after-manchester-arena-terror-attack-10891745

Ariana Grande has cancelled her tour.

I'm sat on the fence about this. One side, I can see her side of the point. She was unintentionally caught up in the atrocity and would be upset, cautious, emotional and probably wouldn't be up for putting on a show. Yet on the other hand, she needs to get out there, put on a show, be defiant, stick two fingers up to those spineless banana splits as a big 'strawberry float You!'

A tough choice.

I'd imagine this has left her emotionally destroyed. A load of kids come to see you perform and get blown up? That's got to strawberry float with your head and make you feel incredibly guilty, even though it is not your fault.

I completely understand why she has cancelled her tour. It's not her responsibility to say "strawberry float you" to terrorists.

Yeah. It's a shame that she's cancelled in terms of its 'message' to the terrorists, but it's completely understandable. This will take a long time for her and everyone involved to get over, and she will doubtless blame herself in some way even though she couldn't have done anything to prevent it.

All the US news outlets leading on the leaking of UK intelligence. Apart from one...the NYTimes. How pathetic.

Maajid is particularly interesting as a former extremist turned liberal / secular Muslim. I heard about him a years ago when he tried to become a liberal democrat MP and then forgot to about him until he was on a documentary called "When Tommy Met Mo" about Tommy Robinson.

His speech about Didsbury mosque provided information I wasn't aware of and that line about "not much good opposing Hitler when you support Stalin because he hates Hitler too" when referring to Islamic State and Al Qaeda was powerful.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/maajid-nawaz/maajid-nawaz-refuses-to-praise-didsbury-mosque/

Maajid talking to a proven liar (claimed to have a law degree) who was meant to be showing Tommy Robinson the unseen side of Islam:



Mo is probably an example of a "moderate" Muslim who actually isn't as moderate as you'd hope and clearly holds some disgusting views but is lying to not seem like a mentalist on telly.